Figures & Portraits Collection: Claude Monet Oil Painting Reproductions
Figures appear throughout Monet’s early and middle career far more than his later reputation as a painter of pure landscape suggests: Camille, his first wife, features in Women in the Garden and Woman with a Parasol, and both his family and friends turn up in garden and riverside scenes from Argenteuil and Vetheuil. Monet largely abandoned figure painting as his career went on, finding it harder to reconcile a posed or moving body with his interest in changing outdoor light, and by the Giverny years landscape had become his subject almost without exception. This collection gathers that earlier, more populated body of work, portraits, family scenes, and figures placed in gardens or by the river, which shows a side of Monet closer to his Impressionist peers who kept painting people throughout their careers. This is the collection for Monet with a human presence rather than his more common empty landscapes, paintings that bring warmth and narrative into a room, a domestic scene rather than a view.
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Apartment Corner
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Blanche Monet Painting with Her Sister Suzanne by the Water
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Camille
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Camille in green dress
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Camille Monet on her deathbed
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Dr. Leclenché
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Eugénie Graff (Madame Paul)
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Interior, after Dinner
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Jean Monet (1867–1913) on His Hobby Horse
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Jean Monet in his cradle
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Luncheon on the Grass
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Luncheon on the Grass (study for № 63)
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Madame Louis Joachim Gaudibert
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Madame Monet Embroidering
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Madame Monet wearing a kimono
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Meditation. Madame Monet on the Sofa
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Twenty-six canvases in which people hold the centre. Monet is remembered as a landscape painter, but for much of his early and middle career the figure was central: his first wife Camille, his children, women reading or walking, parasols against the sky, and quiet interiors. The light is always Impressionist light, but here it falls on a face and a dress.
The people in the landscape
Camille Doncieux modelled for Monet from the mid 1860s, married him in 1870 and died in 1879. She is the woman in the green dress of 1866, the figure in the summer meadows at Bennecourt and Argenteuil, and the reclining figure of the lunch pieces. After her death the family absorbed the household of Alice Hoschede, and her children, along with Monet's own sons Jean and Michel, appear repeatedly through the 1880s.
The best known of these works are the parasol paintings; the large Woman with a Parasol of 1875, showing Camille and Jean seen from below against a fast-moving sky, and the pair of studies of Suzanne Hoschede on the cliff at Giverny in 1886, painted with the face deliberately left blank. In those later studies the figure has almost become a motif like any other, a shape for catching light and wind, which is exactly the direction the rest of his work was taking.
Hand-painted oil reproductions, made to order
Every work in this collection is available two ways. As a hand-painted oil reproduction, brushed in real oils on artist-grade cotton canvas by a senior studio painter, never printed; or as a lower-priced archival canvas print. You choose the size and the orientation, and finish it rolled, stretched on a bar, or set into a thin or thick frame. Each piece is made to order and hand inspected before it leaves us, with free worldwide shipping and 30-day returns.
Frequently asked questions
Why choose the hand-painted oil for a figure painting?
Figures are the hardest thing to reproduce convincingly, and it is where the skill of the painter matters most; the modelling of a face or the fall of a sleeve is carried by real brushwork and layered oils. Our figure subjects are assigned to senior painters for exactly this reason. The archival canvas print remains a good lower-priced alternative.
Where should a figure painting hang?
Give it eye-level placement and space around it, since the figure will hold the room. A sitting room, a study, a stair landing or the head of a hallway all work. Avoid crowding a figure painting into a gallery wall of small pieces; it will fight everything near it.
Are the parasol paintings portrait or landscape format?
They are vertical compositions and should be ordered in portrait orientation, which preserves the low viewpoint and the sweep of sky above the figure. We can advise on the right proportion for any specific work if you write to us.
What size works best?
The full-length figures were painted large and want a generous format; the reading and interior scenes are more intimate and are well served at medium size.